Walter Mikac lost everything the day of the Port Arthur massacre

The anti-violence advocate was playing in a charity golf match when his wife and daughters were gunned down while trying to escape the carnage at the hands of Martin Bryant.

Nanette Mikac was fleeing with Alannah, six, and Madeline, three, when they lost their lives at the hands of a madman.

While Mikac has suffered more grief in one lifetime than anyone should ever know, he has managed to channel his anguish into the Alannah & Madeline Foundation, launched in 1997.

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The aim of the organisation is to advocate for the rights of all children to have a safe and happy childhood without being subjected to any form of violence.

Through the foundation, Mikac helped ensure gun laws were tightened, and oversaw the gun amnesty that saw thousands of weapons removed from Australian streets.

Any form of childhood violence is targeted by the Alannah & Madeline Foundation.

Tellingly, it's latest mission is to protect children from cyberbullying.

Lesley Podesta, CEO of the Alannah & Madeline Foundation tells 9Honey that the organisation focuses on anything that will keep kids safe, and that they recently recognised that as our children's lives are increasingly spent online, that means they are increasingly vulnerable to cyberbullying and other unique dangers the online world opens them up to.

"Australia, just like every other country, is struggling to keep up with the rapid pace of change," she says. "We don't have a national curriculum for children on this, we don't have agreed systems in place around cyberbullying."

The Alannah & Madeline Foundation is now dedicated to working with the community to teach them how to keep kids safe online and how to deal with issues as they arise.

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It speaks volumes that an organisation dedicated to protect children from violence has chosen this modern-day scourge as its latest cause.

One in five children have reported being cyberbullied in the past 12 months, according to new educational platform eSmart, which has been launched by the Alannah & Madeline Foundation.

"A big part of what we do is we put a lot of effort into helping schools become much more sensitive and aware of the role and responsibility they have, about responding to cyberbullying promptly and appropriately," she says.

Podesta explains that when most teachers began their careers, cyberbullying wasn't something they had to deal with.

"Schools have had to come to terms with a really big revolution happening to kids," she continues. "Mobile devices have changed everyone's lives, and one of the problems has been that people expect schools to have the answers.

"We haven't invested in schools [enough for them] to know what to do."

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eSmart was developed by the foundation in partnership with the Melbourne Institute of Technology 10 years ago, and more than a third of Australian schools have taken the framework on board, not to mention workplaces such as McDonald's.

eSmart is a set of tools that schools, libraries and workplaces can use to help manage children's online presence and how to deal with a cybersafety incident or a cyberbullying incident.

Podesta says it's about dealing with such incidents "quickly and effectively" to reduce the impact of it.

"One of the things we know about cyberbullying is that kids don't report it if they think that the people they are telling don't know what to do," she explains. "One of the things eSmart does is it gives every teacher and parent a really clear process about what to do, as well as helping schools to foster an environment in which children are safe online.

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Podesta says the foundation fields calls from "very very distressed parents" who are trying to help protect their children online and eSmart is very clear about steps they can take.

"What we try to really encourage is -- there is no tolerance for this. This is who you talk to and this is what you do."

She says if a child writes something threatening or abusive about another child, "there are consequences to this."

"It should never get to the point where the child is so distraught that they feel they want to hurt themselves," she says.

The foundation believes that cyberbullying is more often than not a child's problem, but "it's the adult's responsibility to know what to do and how to support them"

To support the Alannah & Madeline Foundation and it's incredible new mission, Australia's fastest growing wealth management platform -- nabtrade -- announced it was partnering up with the foundation for it's second annual Charity Trading Day on Thursday 2 August 2018.

All brokerage fees incurred on the day were donated to the organisation, totalling $147,000.

Those funds will be used to help support children who have experienced or witnessed serious violence, to reduce the incidence of bullying, cyberbullying and other cyber risks, and to advocate for the safety and well-being of children.